Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-11


And a popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora ana
Crete,
And dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work at LEucADIA, naming
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twauged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEucADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie and
boast
Where else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To a God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If man has a hundred or two hundred
handy
He will buy lot there, not day will he
For LEUcAD1A the lovely, the darling, the
dandy.
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
LEucADIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with a bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
| OF land III Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads: it can make distant acres ac
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedsideof the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
OF ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north OF Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
eurrent-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
! in its sOuthward Journey from Arctic waters
| hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
| cold waterloo cold for comfortable bath
| ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
| big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
| fetal heat, and do not hathe in the ocean,
| As for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
| by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
One dip, and you've got enough.
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
| Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in a direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
| angle, and in d few miles the water, under
| the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing III any month
of the ar n real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed as
Miilard Fillmore SAID when he signed the
Fugitive Slaye Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
| wife. ma
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
| there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
] to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
| hundred feet in height, and cut up with
| arroyos, so as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
| crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
| prolahlv tWentv Or thirty m lies of ayoilobIa
| beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, ETC.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
| and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. AT Oceanside the direct
| road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
| the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
| lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
| dollars for residence lots mile and more
| from the beach. South Of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and if you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and it is beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of lots
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
danes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
| Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest site
in the world for an ocean city,an on this site
is 'Leucada''-the subject of our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the fairest
OF all the fair daughters OF the sea. She is the
Venus Amphridite of Southern California.
The beach is hard and level. You can drive
along it for twelve miles. For bathing there
is no need OF lines, for the surf is SO light it
lagoons near there are in consequence no
stingrays. From the edge OF the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
up to the top of the first ridge, then it de-
seends ads gently a valley, through which the
| TO the top Of the second ridge mile or SO
| away.
| The amazing thing about Leucadia, and in
which it differs from every other seaside In
California, is In the wonderful fertility of
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
| Leucadia is in process of preparation for
| the market. Streets and avenues have been
cleared, graded, staked and named after
| Greek deities and personages. A drinking
fountain and bath house are being erected
at white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue.
Bath houses on the beach and steps and
grades thereto have been constructed.
railroad station, after the model of the Pan
| theon, has been built, and dining-room
which is conducted by a skilful cook. An
| underground stream of water has been
| struck which will be raised by cyclone mills
| to a reservoir ON the summit of high hill,
! from which pipes are now being laid through
| the avenues.
| TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
| ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC-
| TOBER 26, 1887 and no lots will be sold
before that date. There will be an excursion
| train from Los Angeles to San Diego and re-
| turn, leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, October
| 25th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets ou
| Combination Land Company, in San Diego,
| free excursion tickets to Leucadia and return
| to San Diego. There, will be music, and
| and Il fine lunch, all free; and then, after a
preliminary address by MIR. THOMAS FITCH,
on Southern California and the Boom"